Each year over 44 countries participate in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in which the same module of questions is asked cross-nationally. Northern Ireland has taken part in this exercise since 1989 via the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey (NISA) until 1996, and then more infrequently via the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT).

Tables of results for ISSP modules are available on the NILT website. In addition, the Surveys Online (SOL) resource within ARK includes results for the NISA surveys, as well as for Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

Note that each module may be run in slightly different years in different countries/regions.

ISSP year	Module	Results
1989	Work Orientations I	Northern Ireland
1990	Role of Government II	Northern Ireland
1991	Religion I	Northern Ireland
1993	Environment I	Northern Ireland
1994	Family and Changing Gender Roles II	Northern Ireland
1995	National Identity I	Northern Ireland
1996	Role of Government III	Northern Ireland
1998	Religion II	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Britain
1999	Social Inequality III	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Britain
2000	Environment II	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Britain
2001	Social Relations and Support Systems	Northern Ireland
2002	Family and Changing Gender Roles III	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland
2003	National Identity II	Not fielded	Republic of Ireland
2004	Citizenship	Not fielded	Republic of Ireland
2005	Work Orientations III	Not fielded	Republic of Ireland
2006	Role of Government IV	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Britain
2007	Leisure Time and Sports	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Britain
2008	Religion III	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Britain

General information on the ISSP can be found on its website www.issp.org.

The ISSP datasets for all countries can be obtained from GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany, where the datasets from the member countries are assembled. The English-language version of the ISSP section of GESIS is at http://www.gesis.org/en/services/data/survey-data/issp/.

 

 

 

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